Services in East Ayrshire

This page details a list of local support services in East Ayrshire that you can contact for further support for your family. These services range from family support to specific support needs.

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Services in East Ayrshire

Ayrshire Kinship Care Service (Children 1st)

The Kinship Care Service offers a range of support provided by staff and trained volunteers and helps to empower families and increase their resilience and ability to care for and support their children. Interventions include befriending, advocacy, mediation, practical support, individual and group work, parenting support, financial inclusion advice, family group conferencing, and direct intensive therapeutic support working with loss, harm and trauma.

Ayrshire One-Stop Shop (National Autistic Society Scotland)

The Ayrshire One-Stop Shop offers a wide range of ‘all under one roof’ autism support and information services for people with autism, their families and professionals throughout Ayrshire. Their staff hold meetings, groups and activities in a variety of local community spaces.

Buttle UK

Buttle UK supports children and families in crisis. In Glasgow, in addition to provide grants for basic household necessities, Buttle also works in partnership with the Scottish Kinship Care Alliance to help establish support groups, which help kinship carers to negotiate better support from statutory agencies.

East Ayrshire Families Service (Barnardo's)

The East Ayrshire Families Service is based in Kilmarnock and provides a range of services to families across East Ayrshire, including youth work services, mental health and therapeutic support for young people, and support for young people affected by substance misuse.

Family Mediation West of Scotland (Relationships Scotland)

Relationships Scotland supports individuals, couples and families experiencing relationship difficulties. They offer a range of services, including family mediation, counselling and supervised contact, to families throughout the West of Scotland.

Home-Start Ayrshire

Home-Start centres provide a range of support to families with at least one child under five years old. Each centre has trained volunteers who support families who may be struggling with isolation, physical health, bereavement or a range of other issues.

The Spark Counselling Kilmarnock

The Spark is a leading provider of couples counselling, marriage counselling, individual counselling and family counselling in Scotland. In Kilmarnock, they are based on the Grange Academy Campus, where they offer a range of face-to-face, online and telephone appointments for couples counselling, marriage counselling and relationship counselling.

Stepping Stones for Families

Stepping Stones for Families offers a childcare service, delivered in the family home or place of residence. They employ experienced childcare workers to deliver a tailored service to meet the needs of the individual family and ensure the highest standard of quality. This service is provided to families, agencies and businesses and covers all areas of Ayrshire.

Steps & Stages Childcare (Quarriers)

Quarriers Steps and Stages Service works in partnership with North and East Ayrshire local authorities. The service provides childcare at home and within a mobile crèche, seven days a week from 7am to 10.30pm. Care can cover getting children up and ready for school, taking children to activities, nursery or school, assisting children with disability, or accessing social activities within their own community.

Turning the Corner (Action for Children)

Turning the Corner aims to ensure that disabled children have the same opportunities in life as their non-disabled peers. The service supports children to make and meet friends, connect with their communities and enjoy new opportunities and experiences.

Turning the Corner
Action for Children
43B John Finnie Street
Kilmarnock KA1 1BL